ZOON is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. ZOON is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ZOON?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZOON is to know. It scores 13 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZOON
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
zoonsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZOON scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ZOON, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 23,341.
What does ZOON mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
A whole organism developed from a single fertilised egg.
Zoon is a term of nineteenth-century biology, kept for the individual as against the colony: in a coral or a siphonophore it is genuinely hard to say where one animal stops, and the word was coined to give that argument something to point at. It is rare outside older textbooks now, and the plural zoa is rarer still.
How ZOON is used
Countable, and the plural is zoa. Chiefly in older zoological writing.
- The textbook defines a zoon and then spends a page qualifying it.
- Where one zoon ends and the next begins is the whole difficulty.
- A zoon in this sense is an individual, not a species.
- The word zoon belongs to an older way of describing colonies.
- He uses zoon where a modern writer would simply say individual.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZOON and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZOON
18 longer words begin with ZOON.
Words ending in ZOON
17 words end in ZOON. Useful as a back hook: play ZOON onto a word already on the board.
Words with ZOON inside
4 words contain ZOON in the middle. Words that start with ZOON are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ZOON
Common questions about ZOON
- Is ZOON valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ZOON, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ZOON worth?
- ZOON is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZOON mean?
- A whole organism developed from a single fertilised egg.
- What letters can be added to ZOON?
- ZOON takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ZOON:
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